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If you want to change the default font for new blank word documents, use this shortcut:
  • Create a new blank document
  • Choose format, font.
  • Chose the font you want (say, Arial 10 point)
  • Click the default button (lower left side)
  • From this point on, any new blank document you create will use the new font for its Normal style.


For some time we wanted to be able to store on our hard drive snapshots of the different
versions of this web page or other material we wished to keep for posterity or future use or
reference. Perhaps the material might change, such as the content of a newspaper or no longer be
available online the next time we needed it, or the box score of a baseball game or other vital data.
There may be a large document such as a corporate report or proxy statement which could best be
viewed off-line when we had the time to look at it.  

    To save any web page with the Internet Explorer web browser:

  • With the Internet page open, left click on File.
  • Click on Save As.
  • Indicate where you want to store the file you are creating.
  • Give it a name.
  • Left click on "Save as type:"
  • Save the file as a "Web Archive, single file (*.mht)."

    When you want to use the saved page, open the file which you have stored on your hard drive. You
    don't need to go online to do it.


If you want to save pages printing:
  • Use the two pages per sheet option on your printer set up page.


Inserting symbols and Special Characters in your word document:
  • Choose Insert, Symbol, and then double click on the desired Symbol.  The Symbol dialog box remains open so that
    you can insert additional characters. To end this box, press Esc or close (X) or Cancel.
     

A Screen Shot
  • Can’t believe your eyes? Want a record of an amazing Windows moment? Windows has a built- in “camera” to let you
    take pictures of the screen and save them in graphics files. Here’s how to immortalize your electronic triumphs. To
    copy the whole screen, press PRINT SCREEN. To copy just the active window, press ALT-PRINT SCREEN. (If your
    keyboard has function keys running across the top, the PRINT SCREEN key should be to the right of the F12 key;)
    otherwise just search your keyboard.


How to Forward an E-Mail
  • Did you ever get e-mails that you have to open 10 pages to read the one page with the information on it? This is very
    annoying and time consuming. To stop it, select the “Forward” button from the actual page you wish someone to view.
    This stops them from having to open too many e-mails just to see what you sent.
  1. You MUST click the 'Forward' button first to have full editing capabilities against the body and headers of the
    message. If you don't click on 'Forward' first, you won't be able to edit the message.
  2. Remove any 'FW' in the subject line. You can re-name the subject if you wish or even fix spelling.
  3. When you forward an e-mail, DELETE all of the other addresses that appear in the body of the message (at
    the top). That's right, DELETE them. Highlight them and delete them, backspace them, cut them, whatever it is
    you know how to do. It only takes a second.
  4. When addressing, always enter your receivers in the Bcc: area of the email address box. This way you are not
    exposing all of these email addresses to the internet.
  5. Before you forward an Amber Alert, or a Virus Alert, or some of the other ones floating around nowadays,
    check them out before you forward them. Most of them are junk mail that's been circling the net for Years! Just
    about everything you receive in an email that is in question can be checked out at Snopes. Just go to: http:
    //www.snopes.com/ it’s really easy to find out if it's real or not. If it's not, please don't pass it on.
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